Monthly Archives: October 2012

As Good As it Gets

October 9, 2012 – 7:53 pm

I’m working a long day today, so for tonight here’s another musical item: a clip of the one and only Steve Gadd taking some extended solos. These aren’t your typical drum solos. What I love about Gadd’s soloing is the depth of the groove that’s always playing in his head, and that he expresses just […]

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Please…

October 8, 2012 – 8:08 pm

Can we stop saying “flat-screen TV” yet? You can’t even buy the other kind anymore.

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Power

October 8, 2012 – 12:37 pm

As I was poking around on YouTube this morning I ran across a link to this little number by the great Chaka Khan, only available on a compilation album released in 1998. Recorded and mixed by yours truly, at the now-defunct O’Henry Studios in Burbank, CA. (What a great studio that was.) Note the guitar solos […]

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This Just In

October 6, 2012 – 10:14 pm

We’ve been hearing for a couple of days now that Mitt Romney’s drubbing of President Obama in Wednesday’s debate may have been due to his having smuggled in a “cheat sheet”. Now we have confirmation:  we’ve just learned that the folks at RedState.com have got their hands on a copy. Here it is.

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Entropy and Ethics

October 6, 2012 – 9:55 pm

Last year I wrote a little post about visiting Google’s lavish offices in Manhattan to see my friend Greg, who had recently joined their engineering staff. Here’s a longish excerpt: It being a mild day, Greg and I dined al fresco on a high terrace with a sweeping view of Midtown. (I had a delightful […]

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Potpourri

October 5, 2012 – 9:53 pm

I’m feeling a little under the weather tonight, so all I have to offer is a handful of interesting links. Here’s an item about construction of three-dimensional objects by swarms of autonomous drones acting without central guidance. Here’s one about evolutionary music-composition algorithms. This item covers a topic that gets far too little attention from […]

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The Teacher’s Was Probably Brown

October 4, 2012 – 9:57 pm

Philly Student’s Romney T-shirt Likened To KKK Sheet  

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Au Revoir

October 4, 2012 – 10:40 am

Mind-boggling, suicidal socialist insanity in France. Here.

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That Was Fun

October 3, 2012 – 10:04 pm

Well, well. If you’ve ever wanted empirical confirmation of the “Taranto Principle”, you got it tonight. When your every public appearance for the past four years has been a tongue-bath from fawning media groupies, this is what happens. Next up, the vice-presidential debate. Iowahawk: “Compared to that, this one was a nail-biter. Wear a raincoat.”

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It’s On!

October 3, 2012 – 6:32 pm

OK, folks, ready for the big debate? The good people at RebelPundit.com have given us tonight’s drinking game. Here it is:   Bottoms up!

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That Bump In The Road

October 2, 2012 – 1:01 pm

In the days following the lethal attack on our diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, the Obama administration doggedly clung to its story that the assault, in which a United States Ambassador was killed on U.S. soil, was an unforeseeable and spontaneous eruption of anger, caused by an unflattering video about Mohammed. This story was false, and […]

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An Abbreviated List

October 1, 2012 – 9:09 pm

Sorry all  —  still too overwhelmed with domestic logistics (and ongoing emergencies at work) to spend any personal time at the computer. The blog is gathering dust, and emails are piling up in the inbox. Things should be getting back to normal in another day or two, insh’Allah. Meanwhile, just to get you in the […]

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